Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 9, 2021 (Wells Fargo Bank, National Association).
Term ended Jun 5, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 18, 2022
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Dec 22, 2025.
Held by MaxLinear, Inc.
Filed Jul 28, 2010 as application 12/845,024 · Granted Nov 19, 2013
Base term plus 626 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 5, 2024
2002
2026
Clock starts
Sep 18, 2002
Sep 18, 2002
Term ended
Jun 5, 2024
Jun 5, 2024
Granted
Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
626
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,839,993, to Jun 5, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 626 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Sep 18, 2002, when application PCT/SE2002/001688, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 28, 2010) | Sep 18, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +626 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 5, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,839,993) | resolves to Jun 5, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Dec 22, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 5, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,839,993 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,588,403 | this patent Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
2 of 4 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2020 Reel 53259, frame 678 | Lantiq Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2020 Reel 53626, frame 636 | Intel Corporation | MaxLinear, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 9, 2021 Reel 56816, frame 89 | MaxLinear, Inc.; MaxLinear Communications, LLC; Exar Corporation | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | Security Agreement |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 626 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,839,993, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.